If I had a crowd of people around me begging for a free car and all they had to do was sign the paperwork (the minimum legally required steps to buy a car) I couldn’t keep up with that.
Now the Canadian government wants to know exactly how the electric carmaker managed to move two cars a minute off its lots — a rate that assumes those four dealers had stayed open 24 hours from Jan. 10 to Jan. 12.
If we assume that the dealers did a 24 hour shift it means:
If we assume normal 8 hours per day:
Without reading through the article: No, I’m pretty sure they didn’t sell that many cars. –
If I had a crowd of people around me begging for a free car and all they had to do was sign the paperwork (the minimum legally required steps to buy a car) I couldn’t keep up with that.
Not to mention that you would then also need an extra person to continuously refill the paper in the printer for 8 hours. :)
Per the article it was a combines sum from 4 dealerships. Multiply the times by 4 for the average per location.
A dealership selling a car every 40 seconds is still physically impossible.
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it was a graveyard math
It cosined in a flash
I was gonna do the math but I knew my fediverse nerds would math the math first.
the article’s author did the math too!
I don’t come here to read articles. Most of them are behind paywalls anyway
the real articles were in the comments all along